Editor, Raymond Hettinger,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.8, compared to 3.7. Python 3.8 was released on October 14, 2019. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Releas...
Python's f-strings provide a readable way to interpolate and format strings. They're readable, concise, and less prone to error than traditional string interpolation and formatting tools, such as the .format() method and the modulo operator (%). F-strings are also faster than those tools!
A concise summary of Python’s versions, and what’s in each.
Highlighting some of the new features in Python 3.8 and 3.9.
The f-string `f"{x=}"` expands to `f"x={x}"`.
I occasionally hear people lament that Python is "bloated", "too big", "going enterprise", or some other phrasing to suggest there was once an "ideal" version of Python that had less bloat and was closer to what the person wanted. But then this lament is also often followed by, "but I
Debugging is difficult. Debugging across multiple languages is especially challenging, and debugging across devices often requires a team with varying skill sets and expertise to reveal the underlying…
This second edition was easier to write in some ways and much harder in others.
As I’m writing my own language Cara, I am forced to revisit (or learn for the first time) how programming languages pull off implementing their features.
Some Python tricks, algorithms, best practices, and more that I picked up during AoC 2022.
James Bennett, a long-time Python developer, blogger, and contributor to Django, recently wrote a nice post about the "end" of Python 2.x, entitled "Variations on the Death of Python 2." It's a great read for anyone who, like me, has been in the Python community a long time. I've been…
I was reading Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective the other day and in the chapter on Unix I/O the authors mention that there is no explicit “EOF character” at the end of a file.